Many of its budding diplomats, he notes, read a tome entitled "500 Years on the Periphery".
"Get me that big thick book, will you?" I looked around until I found a tome entitled "Whatever Happened to Sex in Scandinavia," published by the Office for Contemporary Art, a foundation established by the government of Norway.
But what about a tome entitled The End of Knowledge or The End of Wisdom, since the illusion of knowledge itself with the concomitant specter of ego raising its ugly head may be the villain?
In 1899 a fat tome entitled "The New Metropolis, or Memorable Events of Three Centries...from the Island of Manahat-ta to Greater New York at the close of the Nineteenth Century" was issued in commemoration of the city's growth.
Among the titles: Bill Clinton's autobiography, "My Life"; Carl Bernstein's book about Hillary Clinton, "A Woman in Charge"; "Shopping for Bombs," a book about the nuclear bomb network by Pakistan's nuclear scientist A. Q . Khan Les Services Secrets Chinoiss"; and a large tome entitled "The Defense of the Realm: The Authorised History of MI5," by Christopher Andrews.
When the father is asked to analyze the procedural fairness of anti-Communist Congressional hearings like the ones on Alger Hiss, he gets lost in the Borgesian task of deconstructing 200,000 pages of testimony and suffers from "suicidal depression" before delivering up a bloodless tome entitled, "Ex-Communist Witnesses: Four Studies in Fact Finding".
By Russell Maloney The New Yorker, May 23 , 1942P. 7 A Harvard lad writes to say that as he was leaving a lecture at the Fogg Museum in Cambridge, he saw in the U. S. O. book-collection a box a handsome, weighty tome entitled "Who's Who Along the North Shore, Or A Register of the Interesting, Fashionable, and Wealthy Residents of the North Shore of Massachusetts Bay for the summer of 1920".
Now I like neither vodka nor caviar, but it's Capote – in his foreword to a mono-thematic tome entitled The Potato Book.
Of course, just like Aristotle, I was fully aware that I must beware the man of one book – even if that was a dirty great tome entitled X Factor Secrets.
On his bookshelf two volumes stand out, casually placed side by side: the Holy Bible, which he calls the "manufacturer's handbook," and a dense-looking tome entitled Corporate Acquisitions, Mergers, and Divestitures.
The results of their work – a three-volume tome entitled Review of the Criminal Law of Kentucky – was published in 1806.
